--- title: A slide is faster on a smooth mat or in smooth shorts than in rough… — Friction: the grip that stops and helps · tree and pragmatics description: A slide is faster on a smooth mat or in smooth shorts than in rough jeans, because smooth material rubs less; bare, sweaty legs grip a metal slide, squeak and slow you down. Who acts: slide, smooth material, bare sweaty legs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slide, smooth material, bare sweaty legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:006-friction-the-grip.lesson:15 # text = A slide is faster on a smooth mat or in smooth shorts than in rough jeans, because smooth material rubs less; bare, sweaty legs grip a metal slide, squeak and slow you down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 006-friction-the-grip.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 slide slide NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 shorts short NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 jeans jeans NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 4 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 21 mark _ _ 19 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 rubs rub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 22 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 sweaty sweaty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 slide slide NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 squeak squeak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc 35 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a slide | | | a smooth mat or smooth shorts | | than rough jeans; fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **rub** | present | smooth material | | | | | less *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grip** | present | bare sweaty legs | a metal slide | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slide=Experiencer | | 4 | **squeak** | present | bare sweaty legs *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **slow down** | infinitive | bare sweaty legs *not said here* | you | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:physics:006-friction-the-grip.lesson:15`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friction: the grip that stops and helps, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/6-friction-the-grip/14/) - next →: [Friction: the grip that stops and helps, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/6-friction-the-grip/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/6-friction-the-grip/)